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15 Apr 2023, 8:22 am

KitLily wrote:
Well my birthday IS a national holiday! Well, a national day.

It is INTERNATIONAL MEN'S DAY! :roll:

Ironic eh.


Well I'm gonna change that to international KitLily day


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15 Apr 2023, 8:46 am

babybird wrote:
KitLily wrote:
Well my birthday IS a national holiday! Well, a national day.

It is INTERNATIONAL MEN'S DAY! :roll:

Ironic eh.


Well I'm gonna change that to international KitLily day



Awww thanks! :heart: I will be Kitlily Powers, International Woman of Mystery 8)

I am a feminist so I was pretty annoyed when my birthday was chosen as International Men's Day!

(I'm only joking, guys, I don't really mind)


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15 Apr 2023, 8:52 am

My birthday has all sorts of bad stuff in the past that happened.
Nagasaki
Manson murders
Not really a day to celebrate.


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16 Apr 2023, 5:37 pm

Why so many kids these days look so much like their grandmothers, but when I was a kid I never looked like any of my grandmothers. No, me or my parents weren't adopted.


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16 Apr 2023, 7:10 pm

I look like my dad's sister. Freakishly.


My daughter looks like her dad's mother.


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17 Apr 2023, 3:16 am

I do not get why:

• Korean dramas are as popular as they are here in the Philippines.

• People play the role of victims for the situations they created for themselves.

• Mrs. Fnord does not want to order dessert for herself, but eats half of mine instead.

• People look worried when they wake me up from a much-needed nap.

• I feel safest at night when completely covered by a blanket.

• People do not like being treated the same way they treat others.

• A head-bump from a kitten can make my whole day brighter.



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17 Apr 2023, 7:20 am

why people sleep facing away from the wall. my philosophy since childhood has always been that if there were indeed a monster entering my bedroom, it would surely 1. look pretty scary, and 2. kill me very easily, therefore it makes the most sense for the last thing you see to either be a nice, familiar wall, or the world in your imagination when you close your eyes. Then, when the hypothetical monster gets you, you'll feel no fear, and the last thing you see won't be a horrific face. A child facing the monster would be a fool to think only eyes could stop it, and they'd die a horrible death where the last thing they see is their killer. It is objectively correct to sleep facing the wall. (Is it weird for a child to have thought this way?)

However, perhaps paradoxically, I can't sleep facing the wall without a blanket, since I feel very vulnerable, lol.


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17 Apr 2023, 8:56 am

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why people sleep facing away from the wall. my philosophy since childhood has always been that if there were indeed a monster entering my bedroom, it would surely 1. look pretty scary, and 2. kill me very easily, therefore it makes the most sense for the last thing you see to either be a nice, familiar wall, or the world in your imagination when you close your eyes. Then, when the hypothetical monster gets you, you'll feel no fear, and the last thing you see won't be a horrific face. A child facing the monster would be a fool to think only eyes could stop it, and they'd die a horrible death where the last thing they see is their killer. It is objectively correct to sleep facing the wall. (Is it weird for a child to have thought this way?)

However, perhaps paradoxically, I can't sleep facing the wall without a blanket, since I feel very vulnerable, lol.


I don't get how someone can fall asleep facing the wall.

If there's a need to become immediately active, rolling over to face the threat is just a needless delay.

Besides, you just gotta warn the monsters, you think I'm locked in here with you... YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME. :mrgreen:


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17 Apr 2023, 10:34 am

funeralxempire wrote:
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why people sleep facing away from the wall. my philosophy since childhood has always been that if there were indeed a monster entering my bedroom, it would surely 1. look pretty scary, and 2. kill me very easily, therefore it makes the most sense for the last thing you see to either be a nice, familiar wall, or the world in your imagination when you close your eyes. Then, when the hypothetical monster gets you, you'll feel no fear, and the last thing you see won't be a horrific face. A child facing the monster would be a fool to think only eyes could stop it, and they'd die a horrible death where the last thing they see is their killer. It is objectively correct to sleep facing the wall. (Is it weird for a child to have thought this way?)

However, perhaps paradoxically, I can't sleep facing the wall without a blanket, since I feel very vulnerable, lol.


I don't get how someone can fall asleep facing the wall.

If there's a need to become immediately active, rolling over to face the threat is just a needless delay.

Besides, you just gotta warn the monsters, you think I'm locked in here with you... YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME. :mrgreen:


yes, I was never that arrogant. as I said, any monster at least cunning enough to sneak into your house could kill one easily. better to have pleasant final moments than a futile struggle.


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17 Apr 2023, 2:53 pm

Readydaer wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Readydaer wrote:
why people sleep facing away from the wall. my philosophy since childhood has always been that if there were indeed a monster entering my bedroom, it would surely 1. look pretty scary, and 2. kill me very easily, therefore it makes the most sense for the last thing you see to either be a nice, familiar wall, or the world in your imagination when you close your eyes. Then, when the hypothetical monster gets you, you'll feel no fear, and the last thing you see won't be a horrific face. A child facing the monster would be a fool to think only eyes could stop it, and they'd die a horrible death where the last thing they see is their killer. It is objectively correct to sleep facing the wall. (Is it weird for a child to have thought this way?)

However, perhaps paradoxically, I can't sleep facing the wall without a blanket, since I feel very vulnerable, lol.


I don't get how someone can fall asleep facing the wall.

If there's a need to become immediately active, rolling over to face the threat is just a needless delay.

Besides, you just gotta warn the monsters, you think I'm locked in here with you... YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME. :mrgreen:


yes, I was never that arrogant. as I said, any monster at least cunning enough to sneak into your house could kill one easily. better to have pleasant final moments than a futile struggle.


You're thinking much deeper than I ever did as a kid.

I've always sought to impose as high of cost as possible on bullies, being scared isn't an excuse to not engage as forcefully as possible. Being scared means you understand the stakes.

Besides, if it's huge, that means it has huge guts. Rip and tear! :twisted:


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17 Apr 2023, 3:50 pm

I don't get that when I'm drunk I don't need my specs


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17 Apr 2023, 3:59 pm

I replaced artificially sweetened drinks with sugary drinks and lost 20 lbs.

More calories = less weight? How?! :lol:


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17 Apr 2023, 4:03 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
I replaced artificially sweetened drinks with sugary drinks and lost 20 lbs.

More calories = less weight? How?! :lol:


You must be one in a million


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17 Apr 2023, 4:09 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
I replaced artificially sweetened drinks with sugary drinks and lost 20 lbs.

More calories = less weight? How?! :lol:


I heard a guy lost weight by only eating McDonald's for lunch every day.


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17 Apr 2023, 4:22 pm

Joe90 wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
I replaced artificially sweetened drinks with sugary drinks and lost 20 lbs.

More calories = less weight? How?! :lol:


I heard a guy lost weight by only eating McDonald's for lunch every day.


I heard about a woman who did so, in response to Super Size Me.


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17 Apr 2023, 4:22 pm

babybird wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
I replaced artificially sweetened drinks with sugary drinks and lost 20 lbs.

More calories = less weight? How?! :lol:


You must be one in a million


I'm less bloated too, so I assume the weight wasn't body mass, but maybe retained water or something. :?


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